LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Crystal Clean
Prawn trawler Crystal Star started taking on water in the Irish Sea on 18 March and lifeboats from Kilkeel (B class Frank William Walton) and Port St Mary (Trent class Gough Ritchie II) were launched to her aid.
Kilkeel...
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Paragon
Howth, Co. Dublin.—At seven o'clock on the night of the 3rd of February, 1950, a local fisherman reported that the fishing boat Paragon, of Arklow, had gone on the rocks off Ireland's Eye.
At 7.13, therefore, the...
Two Fishing Boats (1)
MCH. 24TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. During the morning a heavy sea was rising, with a strong and increasing south-easterly wind. Two small fishing boats were out and shortly before noon it was reported that one of them was showing a...
Books
• The Pocket Oxford Guide to Sailing Terms has been abridged by Ian Dean- —himself a keen sailor—from the classic work by Peter Kemp, Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. The slim volume, published by Oxford University Press, price...
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Laity F.
Tug on fire THAMES COASTGUARD informed Southend- on-Sea lifeboat station at 1130 on Saturday March 21, 1981. that the tug Laity F was on fire near No 3 Sea Reach Buoy. The crew assembled and took the transport down Southend Pier and at 1148...
New For Dartmouth
new FOR DARTMOUTH the establishment of a permanent lifeboat station at Dartmouth, Devon, has come one step closer, with the granting of planning permission for a boathouse.
the River Dart and its estuary are home to 3,400...
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Top awards for our lifesavers
The Pride of Britain Awards brought RNLI lifesaving to the attention of millions at the end of October when Hartlepool RNLI volunteers received the ITV Daybreak Emergency Services Award.
The volunteers and Hartlepool...
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Gifts from Shipping Companies
ON 10th February last, the Angle, Milford Haven, Life-boat rescued the crew of four of the fishing smack Arrowvale, of Milford. The owners, Messrs.
Peter Hancock & Sons, have sent the Institution £2 2s., in...
Category: Donations
Trapper
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 8 o'clock in the evening of the 26th of June, 1949, a Wexford man telephoned that his son had put out in the yacht Trapper at 11 o'clock that morning and had not returned, and that a message...
Mare Novum
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 10.58 on the morning of the 24th of March, 1960, Lloyd's agent at Great Yarmouth informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick man aboard the Dutch tanker Mare Novum, which was...